EVOLVE Business and Professional Magazine May 2020 | Page 24

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Steve Towsley
for essential items were stopping by. A timely radio spot increased
the momentum and soon people were lining up before opening.
“It’s been a huge response from the community, a lot of people
are coming,” Towsley said.
While supply-chain concerns are real, Towsley said as long
as they continue to get supplies from vendors, Florida Supply &
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Cleaning Products will keep selling them.
“So far we’ve been fortunate that we’ve been able to procure
those supplies,” he said.
As for the uncertainty of it all, Towsley is philosophical.
“If businesses can stay afloat and get their workforces working
again, then the faster we can get back to some kind of normalcy,” he
said. “The more normal, the less uncertain it is for people.”
DISTILLING HELP
One thing Jeremy Craig is certain about is shifting production of
adult beverages at Copper Bottom Craft Distillery to hand sanitizer
was the right thing to do.
“We saw the need right away,” he said. “We decided to do it and
let the chips fall where they may.”
So the Holly Hill distillery reoriented production to sanitizer
with 75 percent alcohol, well above the 60 percent recommended by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Craig.
“We produce high-proof alcohol, which is ethanol and one of
the main ingredients in hand sanitizer is alcohol,” he said. “We had
guidance from the World Health Organization and the Food and
Drug Administration on the formula.”
At first, Copper Bottom was making and bottling the hand
sanitizer with its own supplies, but as word spread, that changed
quickly.
If businesses can stay afloat and get their workforces working
again, then the faster we can get back to some kind of normalcy.”
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